Switch-operating mechanism



(No Model.)

J P BATGHELOR, 2d SWITCH OPERATING MEGEPANISM.

No. 457,178. Patented Aug. 4, 1891.

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JACOB F. BATOHELOR, 2D, OF SAGINAWV, MICHIGAN.

SWITCH-OPERATING MECHANISM.

- SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 457,178, dated August4, 1891.

Application filed March 18, 1891. Serial No. 385,540. (No model.)

having at its top a rock-arm N, which is con To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JACOB F. BATCHELOR, 2d, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Saginaw, in the county of Saginaw and State ofMichigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inSwitch-Operating Mechanism, of which the following is a specification,reference beinghad therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to new and useful improvements inswitch-operating mechanism, and is especially intended to be used inconnection with street-cars.

The invention consists in the peculiar construction of the switch andits connections and a lever upon the car by means of which the conductoror driver can throw the switch from the car, all as more fullyhereinafter described.

In the drawings, Figure l is a plan View of a track to which myinvention is applied, the switch-actuating mechanism being shown indotted lines. Fig. 2 is a perspective view thereof; and Fig. 3 is adiagram side elevation of the car, showing the connections thereon.

A are the rails of the main track, and B are the switch-rails, 0 beingthe movable switchsection. Beneath the track, a short distance inadvance of the switch, is located a transverse shaft D, journaled in anysuitable bearings. This shaft is provided upon opposite sides with therock-arms E and with the downwardly-extending rock-arm F. The rock-armsE are bifurcated, and between the bifurcations are pivotally secured thevertical switchblocks F, which are provided with a doubleinclined headG, extending through the slots H in the blocks I, secured upon thesurface of the road-bed, two between the rails. The rock-arm F iscorrespondingly bifurcated to receive the connecting-rod J, which isconnected to the rock-arm L of the vertical shaft M, journaled in anysuitable bearing, and

nected by means of the connecting-rod O with the switch-section 0. Uponthe car is a lever P, having offset Q at its lower end, to which isconnected the connecting-rod Q, at the lower end of which is journaledthe roller R.

S is a stay-rod pivotally secured to the rod Q and also to the block Supon the bottom of the car.

T is a spring normally holding the lever P in its vertical position.

The parts'being thus constructed, as the car approaches the switch thedriver depresses the lever P, which carries downward the roller R,striking the double-inclined head G, depressing it, which rocks theshaft D and throws the switch-section O to side-track the car. As soonas the driver releases his hold of the lever, the springT returns it toits normal position. If now the car approaches which it is desired tocontinue on the main track, the operator throws the lever upon theopposite side of the car, which will depress the head G upon that sideand rock the shaft in the opposite direction, throwing the switchrail inproper position for the main track.

WVhat I claim as my invention is In a switch-operating mechanism, thecombination, with the: handclever on the car, of the roller at the lowerend of the rod actuated by said lever, and the double-inclined head Gupon both sides of the track and upon opposite sides of the shaft D andadapted to rock said shaft in opposite directions, and connections tothe movable switch-rails, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JACOB F. BATOHELOR, 2D. Witnesses:

H. K. HOWRY,

J AMES T. WYLIE.

